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CAPTURE OF THE 

SHIP ''AURORA'' 



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PHILIP FRENEAU 




M. F. MANSFIELD & A. WESSELS 
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Introduction, . . . . . .7 

Some Account of the Capture, . . -15 



I N r R D u c r I N 

The following account of the capture of the ship 
Aurora was written by Philip Freneau, the " Poet of the 
Revolution," at his Mount Pleasant home, July 14, 1780, 
two days after his release from the British Hospital Ship 
Hunter. 

The poet was then in his twenty-eighth year, and for 
so young a man his career had been exciting and varied. 
He was born in Frankfort Street, in the city of New York, 
January 2, 1752. The family was of French Huguenot 
descent, and with the Pintards, Jays, Delanceys, and many 
other prominent Huguenots who sought refuge in this coun- 
try from the religious and civil persecutions consequent 
upon the Revocation by Louis XIV. of the Edict of 
Nantes, founded the old St. Esprit Church on Pine Street, 
New York City, which was long the centre of Huguenot 
influence on this continent. 

His father, Pierre Freneau, married Agnes Watson, of 
the Province of New Jersey, one of the most cultivated 
and beautiful women of the time. He died soon after the 
poet's birth, and his widow and children removed to the 
large estate at Mount Pleasant, which he had purchased a 
short time before his death. Of the boyhood of Philip 
Freneau there is little known. At the age of sixteen years 
he entered the College of New Jersey, so far advanced in 
Latin that the acting president wrote a congratulatory letter 
on his proficiency to his mother. 

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In 1768, in his sophomore year, he composed and had 
printed "The Political History of the Prophet Jonah," 
which obtained for him an immediate recognition of his 
genius by both classmates and faculty. After a brilliant 
career at college, he was graduated in the year 1771. 

Evert A. Duyckinck in his memoir on Philip Freneau 
says : " It was a creditable year for the institution when he 
graduated, for in his class were James Madison, the future 
President; Hugh Henry Brekenridge, the celebrated 
judge, and author of ' Modern Chivalry,' besides others of 
note in the annals of America, among whom we may men- 
tion the father of the Rev. Dr. Gardiner Spring, Samuel 
Spring, who became a chaplain of the Revolutionary army, 
was with Arnold at the attack of Quebec in 1775, and in 
the disastrpus affair carried in his arms the wounded Aaron 
Burr from the field." The commencement exercises at 
Nassau Hall that year, 1771, were of unusual interest. It 
was in the presidency of that eminent patriot, John Wither- 
spoon, who, though born in Scotland, was proving himself 
by his enlightened sagacity and devotion to freedom an 
"American of Americans." The political independence of 
America, though not formally proclaimed, was ripening in 
Massachusetts and elsewhere to its great declaration and 
invincible resolve. The young patriots of Princeton, on a 
spot destined to become memorable in the struggle, were 
already animated by the kindling promise of the future. 

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Breckenridge and Freneau had already developed a taste 
for poetry, and they united for their commencement exer- 
cise in the composition of a dialogue, " A Poem on the 
Rising Glory of America," which they pronounced together, 
founding in animated blank verse the achievements of col- 
onization in the past, and the visionary grandeur of the 
empire hereafter. This poem was published in Philadel- 
phia in 1772, where Freneau went to reside with the inten- 
tion of studying law, but owing to the unsettled state of 
the country, his mind was directed into other channels. 

In 1774 he went to New York City, where he resided 
two years, writing and publishing satirical pieces and polit- 
ical burlesques, ridiculing the King, Royalists, and neutrals, 
and gaining great popularity for himself, and many con- 
verts to Whig principles. 

During the year 1776 he embarked for the West 
Indies on a mercantile venture. He remained there several 
months where he wrote two of his best poems, " The 
House of Night," and " The Beauties of Santa Cruz." He 
returned in 1777, and after a short stay in America sailed 
for Bermuda. The exact length of time he spent in Ber- 
muda is not known, but in 1779 he was in Philadelphia 
editing, for Francis Baily, The U7iited States Magazine. 
This periodical was not successful, and on its discontinu- 
ance he again turned his attention to the sea. Having 
obtained letters of marque, he built and fitted out the 



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ship Aurora, at Philadelphia, which soon after leaving the 
waters of the Delaware, was fired upon and captured by a 
British frigate. In " Some Account of the Capture of the 
Ship Aurora," which has never before been published, he 
has given a vivid account of the capture and the hardships 
and indignities he was subjected to while a prisoner in the 
hands of the British. 

A hundred and nineteen years have elapsed since it 
was written that July day, 1780, by the poet in the old 
Mount Pleasant home. With other precious manuscripts, 
including a letter from James Madison, the President, prais- 
ing Freneau's genius ; several from the poet's brother, Peter 
Freneau, known to fame as the American Addison, and 
many others from celebrated people of that day, it was 
bequeathed . by the poet to his granddaughter, Jane Lead- 
beater. Believing it would interest students and lovers of 
American history, and awaken interest in the greatest 
American poet and writer of the i8th century, her heirs 
have consented to its publication. 

In this short introduction, which is but a brief outline 
of the principal events in his career until the year 1780, I 
am indebted for information to members of the Freneau 
family, and have also borrowed from Freneau's Memoirs, 
by Evert Duyckink and Rufus Wilmot Griswold. 

JAY MILLES. 



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N the 25th of May, in beat- 
ing down Delaware Bay, 
we unfortunately retook 
a small sloop from the 
refugees loaded with corn, 
which hindered us from 
standing out to sea that 
night, whereby in all proba- 
bility we should have avoided the enemy which 
afterward captured us. 




Friday morning. May 26. The air very smoky 
and the wind somewhat faintish, though it after- 
ward freshened up. The wind was so that we 
stood off E. S. E. after putting the pilot on board 
the small sloop, handcuffing the prisoners, and send- 
ing the prize to Cape May. About three o'clock 
in the afternoon we discovered three sail bearing 
from us about E. N. E. ; they were not more than 
five leagues from us when we discovered them from 
the foretop, at the same time we could see them 
from the quarter-deck. One appeared to be a pretty 



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large ship, the other two, brigs. We soon found 
they were in chase of us; we therefore tacked im- 
mediately, set all sail we could crowd, and stood back 
for the bay. My advice to the officers was to stand for 
Egg Harbor or any part of the Jersey shore and run 
the ship on the flats rather than be taken ; but this 
was disregarded. We continued to stand in till we 
saw Cape Henlopen ; the frigate, in the mean time, 
gaining on us apace ; sun about half an hour high. 
We were abreast of the cape, close in, when the wind 
took us aback, and immediately after we were be- 
calmed ; the ebb of tide at the same time setting very 
strong out of the bay so that we rather drifted out. 
Our design was, if possible, to get within the road 
around the point, and there run the ship on shore, 
but want of wind and the tide being against us, 
hindered from putting this into execution. We were 
now within three hundred yards of the shore. The 
frigate in the mean time ran in the bay to leeward 
of us about one-quarter of a mile (her distance from 
the cape hindering it from becalming her as it did 
us), and began to bring her cannon to bear on us. 
Her two prizes hove to ; one we knew to be the 



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brig Active^ Captain Mesnard ; the other, as we after- 
ward learned, was a Salem brig from the West In- 
dies. The frigate was the Iris returning from 
Charleston to New York with the express of the 
former's being taken. We now began to fire upon 
each other at the distance of about three hundred yards. 
The frigate hulled us several times. One shot went 
betwixt wind and water, which made the ship leak 
amazingly, making twenty-four inches in thirty 
minutes. We found our four-pounders but were 
trifles against the frigate, so we got our nine-pounder, 
the only one we had, pointed from the cabin win- 
dows, with which we played upon the frigate for 
about half an hour. At last a twelve-pound shot 
came from the frigate and, striking a parcel of oars 
lashed upon the starboard quarter, broke them all in 
two, and continuing its destructive course struck Cap- 
tain Laboyteaux in the right thigh, which it smashed 
to atoms, tearing part of his belly open at the same 
time with the splinters from the oars ; he fell from 
the quarter deck close by me and for some time 
seemed very busily engaged in setting his leg to 
rights. He died about eleven the same night and 



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next day was sewed up in his hammock and sunk. 
Every shot seemed now to bring ruin with it. A 
lad named Steel had his arm broken and some others 
complained of slight wounds; whereupon, finding 
the frigate ready and in a position to give us a broad- 
side, we struck, after having held a very unequal con- 
test with her for about an hour. 

During the engagement six or seven of our people 
hoisted out the yawl and made their escape to the 
shore, though at the most imminent hazard of their 
lives, as we afterward learned that they pointed a 
twelve-pounder at her from the frigate and were 
unanimously for sinking her except Captain Hawkes, 
whose humanity would not suffer the piece to be 
fired, which was loaded with round grape shot. As 
soon as we struck,^one Squires with some midshipmen 
came on board and took possession of the vessel. 
Squires was prize master. They had six sailors with 
them. I informed the prize master I was a passen- 
ger on board and supposed I might be excused from 
going on board the frigate on that account. He 
then asked me several questions, where I was going, 
etc. I satisfied him in everything, and in return 



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was assured I might stay on board our own vessel 
till we got to New York, where he said he did not 
doubt I would get my liberty immediately. ' This 
assurance hindered me from packing up anything in 
my chest to carry with me on board the frigate, but 
when the barge came the last time for prisoners, I 
was cruelly seized and driven down the sides, in 
the sight of Squires, into the barge, among the 
common sailors, and could not even get liberty to 
go to my chest to put on anything, so that I 
had to go on board the frigate in my common ship 
clothes. 

All the satisfaction I could get from Squires was that 
I should have my chest safe and sound next morning ; 
he also swore that he had no one on board who would 
meddle with it. With this promise I was obliged 
to be contented and went on board the frigate, it be- 
ing now dark. I was ranged along with the com- 
mon sailors on the quarter-deck, though I strongly 
remonstrated against it to the master-at-arms, who 
seemed to have the management of us. 
I represented to him that I was a passenger, going 
on my private business to the islands, and insisted 

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that such usage was cruel, inhuman, and unjust. He 
asked me if I was not a colonist; I told him I was 
an American; then said he, you have no right to 
expect favors more than others. 

The list of us was now taken, and we were ordered 
down to be handcuffed, two and two. I expected 
nothing else to have been my fate; when we got be- 
tween decks I thought I should have been suffocated 
with the heat. There were about one hundred 
prisoners forward, the stench of whom was almost 
intolerable — so many melancholy sights, and dismal 
countenances made it a pretty just representation of 
the infernal region. I marched through a torrent of 
cursing and blasphemy to my station, viz., at the 
blacksmith's vice, where the miserable prisoners were 
handcuffed two and two. At last it came my turn. 
" Pray," said I, " is it your custom to handcuff passen- 
gers? The Americans, I am confident, never used 
the English so." 

"Are you a passenger?" said the blacksmith, at the 
same time, happening to look up, I saw Hugh Ray 
looking steadily at me, who immediately seized my 
hand, and asked me how I did. 



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"Do you know him?" said Holmes, the master-at- 
arms. " Then you are free from irons ; come over 
among the gentlemen." 

This was an unexpected deliverance from a cursed 
disgrace which I hardly knew how I should get 
clear of. After this, I was used very well by everybody. 
The next day I expected my chest on board hourly, 
but had the mortification to hear nothing of it, and 
was suffered to come on deck but twice about five 
minutes at a time the whole day. The day after, 
Squires came on board us, and I took that opportu- 
nity to renew my application for my chest, saying 
that I could not dress myself so as to appear decent 
for the want of it. He replied that I must wait until 
we got to New York, as it would be very incon- 
venient to hoist the boats out while we were at sea. 
Saturday afternoon we entered the Hook, and Mon- 
day, about twelve o'clock, anchored in the North 
River. Wednesday all the prisoners were sent from 
the Iris to the Prison-ship, except the Captains, Sur- 
geons, and Passengers. 

Thursday, Hulings, the Deputy Commissary, came 
on board and took us on shore to the Commissary's 



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office. I should have observed that before this, Cap- 
tain Sutton told me that Captain Hawkes had 
promised him I should have my liberty to go where 
I pleased, so that I had no expectation of going on 
board the prison-ship. I was much surprised, there- 
fore, at the commissary's office, when I was denied 
even a parole, especially as Captain Hawkes and all 
his officers had promised me repeatedly that at least 
I should be paroled to Long Island ; but Captain 
Sutton afterward informed me that his second mate 
had taken upon him to enroll me among those who 
were stationed at the guns, and he believed this would 
be some detriment to me. I answered him that as 
he had been exact enough with regard to my paying 
my passage, he should have seen that I was not put 
in any of their enrollments, and added, with a good 
deal of resentment, that I wished that I had never 
seen the ships, and immediately walked away. To 
return : At the commissary's office, as I saw before. 
Captain Maynard and myself were refused our paroles. 
Hulings told me that the Americans so generally dis- 
regarded their paroles that they must take care who 
they trusted for the future. I told him if he would 



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suffer me to go with the guard to a friend of mine 
in town I would get them security even to ^10,000, 
that I would stay within the limits of my parole till 
I was exchanged. He refused letting me go any- 
where, only he said if I would write a letter he 
would take it from me the next day and deliver it to 
Mr. Gardner. I had writ Mr. Gardner from the 
Irisy by a person who I am sure delivered the letter ; 
but I received no answer. After this, viz., on Thurs- 
day, June I, Captain Maynard and myself were con- 
ducted on board the Scorpion prison-ship, lying off 
the college in the North River. At sundown we 
were ordered down between the decks to the num- 
ber of nearly three hundred of us. The best lodg- 
ing I could procure this night was on a chest, almost 
suffocated with the heat and stench. I expected to 
die before morning, but human nature can bear more 
than one would at first suppose. The want of bed- 
ding and the loss of all my clothes rendered me 
wretched indeed ; besides the uncertainty of being ex- 
changed, for who could assure me that I should not 
lie six or eight months in this horrid prison ? One, 

Gauzoo, was steward of the ship — one of the most 

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brutal of mankind, who abused us continually. It is 
impossible for words to give his character ; it seemed 
as though he could not give any of us a civil word 
upon the most indifferent occasion. When he was 
not cursing us, he kept in his cabin in gloomy re- 
serve, the most vile and detestable of mortals. 
June 3d. About midnight the weather was very 
stormy and the river uncommonly rough. The ship 
rolled considerably, and the water gushed into some 
of the lower ports, which made some of the lands- 
men who slept in the cable tier imagine she was 
sinking. In a moment the alarm became general. 
" The ship is sinking ! the ship is sinking ! ' ' was echoed 
fore and aft. I expected every moment to feel my- 
self afloat in the berth where I lay ; but at the same 
time considering it would be a folly to drown be- 
tween decks when I might perhaps get on shore some- 
how, I jumped up and hurried toward the main hatch- 
way, where a multitude was endeavoring to get out; 
the sentries at the same time beating on their heads 
with their drawn swords and marquets without 
mercy, imagining the whole to be a scheme of our 
insurrection. Some lamented that they should never 

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see their wives and children again ; others begged by 
the love of God to be let upon deck and they would 
bind themselves slaves forever on board a man-of-war, 
or any other service. There was an Italian gunner 
who prayed to St. Anthony most heartily, and de- 
sired the prayers of his holy father, the Pope, in 
case he should be drowned. To such ridiculous dis- 
tress does the fear of death reduce the generality of 
mankind when they apprehend it to be nigh. After 
some trouble we got a light, and examining the 
pump-well, found the ship dry and tight. The mis- 
take of the water coming in the port was soon de- 
tected, and the same shut and caulked. Indeed, it 
was a dismal night. But upon the next night we 
were doomed to experience more real danger. About 
thirty-five of our people formed a design of making 
their escape, in which they were favored by a large 
schooner accidentally alongside of us. She was one 
that was destined for the expedition to Elizabeth 
Town, and anchored just astern of us. We were then 
suffered to continue upon deck, if we chose, till nine 
o'clock. We were all below by that time except 
the insurgents, who rushed upon the sentries and dis- 



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armed them in a moment ; one they tied by his neck 
stock to the quarter rails, and carried off his marquet 
with them (they were all Hessians), the rest they 
drove down with their arms into the cabin, and 
rammed the sentry-box down the companion in such 
a manner that no one could get up or down. One, 
Murphy, possessed himself of Gauzoo's silver-hilted 
sword, and carried it off with him. When the sen- 
tries were all silent they manned the ship's boat and 
boarded the schooner, though the people on board 
attempted to keep them off with hand-spikes. The 
wind blowing fresh at south and the flood of tide 
being made, they hoisted sail and were out of sight 
in a few minutes. These particulars we learned from 
some who were on duty, but were unsuccessful in 
getting into the boat. As soon as the sentries got 
possession of the vessel again, which they had no 
difliculty in doing, as there was no resistance made, 
they posted themselves at each hatchway, and most 
basely and cowardly fired fore and aft among us, pis- 
tols and marquets for a full quarter of an hour with- 
out intermission. By the mercy of God, they 
touched but four, one mortally ; another had his 

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great toe shot off, the other two slightly. I believe 
they meant by this piece of cruelty to atone to their 
masters for their being disarmed in the manner they 
were. The next morning the Deputy Commissary 
came on board to muster the company to see who 
was missing. All that were found wounded were 
put in irons and ordered to lie upon deck, exposed 
to the burning sun. About four o'clock p.m., one 
of the poor fellows who had been wounded the night 
before died. They then took him out of irons, 
sent him on shore, and buried him. After this no 
usage seemed to them severe enough for us. We had 
water given us to drink that a dog could scarcely 
relish ; it was thick and clammy and had a dismal 
smell. They withdrew our allowance of rum, and 
drove us down every night strictly at sunset, where 
we suffered inexpressibly till seven o'clock in the 
morning, the gratings being rarely opened before that 
time. Thus did I live with my miserable companions 
till the 2 2d of June. When finding myself taken with 
a fever, I procured myself to be put on the sick list, 
and the same day was sent with a number of others 
to the Hunter hospital-ship, lying in the East River. 

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Here was a new scene opened. The Hunter had 
been very newly put to the use of a hospital-ship. 
She was miserably dirty and cluttered. Her decks 
leaked to such a degree that the sick were deluged 
with every shower of rain. Between decks they lay 
along struggling in the agonies of death ; dying with 
putrid and bilious fevers; lamenting their hard fate 
to die at such a fatal distance from their friends ; 
others totally insensible, and yielding their last breath 
in all the horrors of light-headed frenzy. 
I cannot forebear quoting a few lines from Milton 
(Lib XL, 480): — 

" Immediately a place 
Before his eyes appear'd, sad, noisome, dark ; 
A lazar-house it seem'd ; wherein were laid 
Numbers of all diseased ; all maladies 
Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms 
Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, 
Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, 
Intestine stone and ulcer, cholic pangs, 
Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, 
And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, 
Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, 
Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. 
Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair 
Tended the sick," etc. 



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Our allowance in the Hunter, to those upon full diet, 
was one pound of bread and one pound of fresh beef 
per diem ; to those upon half diet, one pound of 
bread and one-half pound of beef or mutton per 
diem. Every other day we had a cask of spruce beer 
sent on board. Our fresh beef was generally heads 
or shanks, and would just answer to make soup. A 
German doctor attended every morning at eight 
o'clock and administered such remedies as were thought 
proper. Thus things went on, two or three dy- 
ing every day, who were carried on shore and buried 
in the bank, till three of our crew, who had got 
pretty hearty, stole the boat one night and made 
their escape. This occasioned new trouble. The 
doctor refused to come on board, and as he rowed 
past us next morning to see somebody in the "Jersey ^ 
which lay near us, some of the sick calling to him 
for blisters, he told them to put tar on their backs, 
which would serve as well as anything, and so rowed 
away. However, after two or three days his wrath 
was appeased, and he deigned to come on board again. 
By this time, being about the 6th or 7th of July, in 
spite of all the remedies I had taken, I found my 



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fever increasing ; however, it continued to be the re- 
mittent kind ; had it turned to putrid, as it did with 
numbers, in all probability I must have died as well as 
the rest. I had a large blister put on my back which 
helped me amazingly. 

At length, on the i 2th of July, the flag came along- 
side and cleared the hospital-ship. But the miseries 
we endured in getting to Elizabeth Town were many. 
Those that were very bad, of which the proportion 
was great, naturally took possession of the hold. No 
prisoner was allowed to go in the cabin, so that I 
with twenty or thirty others were obliged to sleep 
out all the night, which was uncommonly cold for 
the season. About ten next morning we arrived at 
Elizabeth Town Point, where we were kept in the 
burning sun several hours, till the Commissary came 
to discharge us. 

I was afflicted with such pains in my joints, I could 
scarcely walk, and besides, was weakened with a rag- 
ing fever; nevertheless, I walked the two miles to 
Elizabeth Town ; here I got a passage in a wagon 
to within a mile of Crow's Ferry, which I walked ; 
got a passage over the ferry and walked on as far as 



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Molly Budleigh's, where I stayed all night. Next 
morning, having breakfasted on some bread and milk, 
I set homeward; when I came to Obadiah Budleigh's 
corner I turned to the right and came home round 
about through the woods for fear of terrifying the 
neighbors with my ghastly looks had I gone thro 
Mount Pleasant. — July 14, 1780. 
I forgot to mention that as soon as we came to New 
York and things were a little adjusted, Mr. Chat- 
ham, our first mate, went on board the Aurora and 
found his desk with mine and several other books 
open and everything taken out ; so much for English 
honor and honesty. 

N. B. — Wrote a letter by Hulings to Mr. G. , 

but received no answer. Two days before I was ex- 
changed got a letter from Mr. G. , offering me 

anything I wanted, pretending he did not know 
what ship I was in. I returned him a letter of thanks, 
letting him know that if he could get me a parole, 
it would be the greatest favor he could do me. 
The same day Mr. Robins came alongside in a small 
boat with fish, offering me what money I wanted. 
I begged him to lay the money out in wine, oranges, 

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and lemons, and send them to me. He promised 
to be alongside in three hours but I never saw him 
afterward; in short, I met with nothing but disap- 
pointment among this people, and cannot sufficiently 
congratulate myself upon having got from among 
them. 



Sir: — I take this opportunity to inform you that 
instead of arriving as I fondly promised myself at the 
fragrant groves and delectable Plains of Santa Cruz, 
to enjoy the fruits and flowers of that happy clime, 
I was unfortunately taken and confined on board a 
Prison Ship at New York, and afterwards in a Hos- 
pital ship where the damnable draughts of a German 
Doctor aflx)rded far different feelings to my Stomach 
than the juice of the Orange or more nourishing 
milk of the cocoa. 



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